TY - JOUR A1 - Bondü, Rebecca A1 - Elsner, Birgit T1 - Justice Sensitivity in Childhood and Adolescence JF - Social development N2 - Individuals differ in their sensitivity toward injustice. Justice-sensitive persons perceive injustice more frequently and show stronger responses to it. Justice sensitivity has been studied predominantly in adults; little is known about its development in childhood and adolescence and its connection to prosocial behavior and emotional and behavioral problems. This study evaluates a version of the justice sensitivity inventory for children and adolescents (JSI-CA5) in 1472 9- to 17-year olds. Items and scales showed good psychometric properties and correlations with prosocial behavior and conduct problems similar to findings in adults, supporting the reliability and validity of the scale. We found individual differences in justice sensitivity as a function of age and gender. Furthermore, justice sensitivity predicted emotional and behavioral problems in children and adolescents over a 1- to 2-year period. Justice sensitivity perspectives can therefore be considered as risk and/or protective factors for mental health in childhood and adolescence. KW - justice sensitivity KW - development KW - conduct problems KW - prosocial behavior Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12098 SN - 0961-205X SN - 1467-9507 VL - 24 IS - 2 SP - 420 EP - 441 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bondü, Rebecca A1 - Krahé, Barbara T1 - Links of justice and rejection sensitivity with aggression in childhood and adolescence JF - Aggressive behavior : a multidisciplinary journal devoted to the experimental and observational analysis of conflict in humans and animals N2 - Individual differences in justice sensitivity and rejection sensitivity have been linked to differences in aggressive behavior in adults. However, there is little research studying this association in children and adolescents and considering the two constructs in combination. We assessed justice sensitivity from the victim, observer, and perpetrator perspective as well as anxious and angry rejection sensitivity and linked both constructs to different forms (physical, relational), and functions (proactive, reactive) of self-reported aggression and to teacher- and parent-rated aggression in N=1,489 9- to 19-year olds in Germany. Victim sensitivity and both angry and anxious rejection sensitivity showed positive correlations with all forms and functions of aggression. Angry rejection sensitivity also correlated positively with teacher-rated aggression. Perpetrator sensitivity was negatively correlated with all aggression measures, and observer sensitivity also correlated negatively with all aggression measures except for a positive correlation with reactive aggression. Path models considering the sensitivity facets in combination and controlling for age and gender showed that higher victim justice sensitivity predicted higher aggression on all measures. Higher perpetrator sensitivity predicted lower physical, relational, proactive, and reactive aggression. Higher observer sensitivity predicted lower teacher-rated aggression. Angry rejection sensitivity predicted higher proactive and reactive aggression, whereas anxious rejection sensitivity did not make an additional contribution to the prediction of aggression. The findings are discussed in terms of social information processing models of aggression in childhood and adolescence. Aggr. Behav. 41:353-368, 2015. (c) 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. KW - proactive aggression KW - reactive aggression KW - relational aggression KW - justice sensitivity KW - rejection sensitivity Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.21556 SN - 0096-140X SN - 1098-2337 VL - 41 IS - 4 SP - 353 EP - 368 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Hoboken ER -